Crack On: What Comes After Addiction, Chaos, and Collapse — SF671

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on the themes of recovery and transformation following addiction, chaos, and personal collapse, emphasizing the potential for change and growth. Russell Brand and his diverse team engage in conversations about current news, personal experiences, and spiritual insights, suggesting that if individuals like Rob Zombie can overcome their past challenges, then societal change is also possible.

Key takeaways

• Russell Brand's Rumble call invites a cosmic twist: subscribe for interdimensional rewards, or just great content.
• With Rob Zombie's transformation, we ponder: can redemption be a universal anthem if rock stars can change?
• Joe Man’s UK infiltration plans remind us that true journalism is about boots on the ground, not just headlines.
• Tommy Robinson's rally draws suspicion: can 'four nations, one God' unite when beliefs often divide?
• Baking soda isn't just for baking; it’s a secret weapon against pesticides—who knew your fruit could be this high maintenance?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Russell Brand (Host) · 19 min speaking
• Jake Smith (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• Dave Fields (Guest) · 5 min speaking
• Rob Zombie (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• Joe Man (Guest) · 5 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Tommy Robinson, Russell Brand, Crack On, Rumble
2. 20:00 – 25:00: True Gold Republic, Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Crack On
3. 25:00 – 30:00: Crack On, Rumble, Russell Brand, Alcoholics Anonymous

Notable quotes from "Crack On: What Comes After Addiction, Chaos, and Collapse — SF671"

• Hello there you awakening ones. Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. The revolution moves a pace. The glory is upon us. Wherever you're watching us, remember if you go.

  about Russell Brand · at 0:13

• Get you to infiltrate things, interview people, stuff like that, like you did that brilliant reporting on the Tommy Robinson march. We want to do more of that kind of thing.

  about Joe Man · at 1:37

• Fantastic show lined up. Before we get into our fantastic new item, Crack On, where we talk about recovery, let us know in the comments and chat if you're struggling with addiction or attachment or loss, particular chemical dependency.

  about Crack On · at 3:09

• I've got a few stories to talk about before we get into recovery. I want to just tag that beloved Sheila Labou who I used to see around. Good lad. Good lad has found the Lord. He's become as Catholic as possible. Look at him there.

  about Sheila Labou · at 4:08

• Who don't want guesses, they want strategy. Do you want strategy, not guesses? Get the free 2026 expert guide now at stayfreedgold.com or call 8003004653.

  about True Gold Republic · at 21:44

• Like George Michael just singing watching it like George Michael watching and joining in and David Bow's got a [ __ ] on like smoking a snout while rehearsing it and Lennox is…

  about David Bowie · at 22:53

• This podcast is not allied with nor endorsed by any particular 12step fellowship. Although we may reference their literature, we do not represent these organizations. The.

  about Alcoholics Anonymous · at 26:37

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Russell Brand — Person · Host / main speaker · 2 mentions · first at 0:13
  He hosts 'Stay Free with Russell Brand' and leads the discussion on news, religion, politics, and recovery; he also introduces the recovery segment 'Crack On'.
• Dave Fields — Person · Co-host / panelist (recovery segment) · 2 mentions · first at 0:49
  Introduced as a local businessman/entrepreneur with his own podcast; he participates in the news discussion and is a core voice in the recovery segment, sharing sobriety time and substance history.
  Yeah, it's beautiful to see you. There is local businessman, entrepreneur Dave Fields. Hey, Dave.
• Joe Man — Person · Co-host / field reporter (UK) / recovery segment co-host · 2 mentions · first at 1:25
  A UK-based contributor who previously did reporting on a Tommy Robinson march; he joins the recovery segment and discusses his sobriety and substances used.
• Tommy Robinson — Person · Referenced political activist (subject of reporting/coverage) · 2 mentions · first at 1:41
  Referenced as the figure behind a march/protest that Joe covered; Russell reads an announcement from Robinson's X account about a planned May protest in Central London.
  Get you to infiltrate things, interview people, stuff like that, like you did that brilliant reporting on the Tommy Robinson march. We want to do more of that kind of thing.
• David Bowie — Person · Referenced artist (example of musical excellence) · 3 mentions · first at 22:43
  Shown in a clip Russell describes as Bowie rehearsing with Annie Lennox before Live Aid; used to illustrate 'proper talent' and artistic quality.
• Annie Lennox — Person · Referenced artist (example of musical excellence) · 2 mentions · first at 22:43
  Appears alongside David Bowie in the rehearsal clip Russell praises; used as an example of effortless vocal talent.
  See something that I think is just flat out beautiful. it was some footage of on X of David Bowie and Annie Lennox rehearsing before they do live aid. And amidst the treasures…
• Sheila Labou — Person · Referenced celebrity conversion story (identity unclear from transcript) · 1 mention · first at 4:13
  Russell highlights a person he calls 'Sheila Labou' as having 'found the Lord' and become Catholic; Joe links this to playing Padre Pio in a recent film. The name appears to be a mishearing/variant of Shia LaBeouf, but the transcript text itself is ambiguous.
• Padre Pio — Person · Referenced religious figure (subject of film discussed) · 1 mention · first at 4:29
  Mentioned as the subject of a film Joe watched (partly) and as a catalyst for the referenced actor's conversion; used to frame discussion of Catholic faith and devotion.
  Yeah, it's good stuff. He played Padre Podi in a film recently and that was when he converted, I believe.
• Jake Smith — Person · Producer (show staff) · 1 mention · first at 0:45
  Introduced as the producer of the show; appears briefly in the opening team roll-call.
  There's our producer, Jake Smith. Hi, Jake.
• Rob Zombie — Person · In-studio panelist (nickname/moniker used on show) · 1 mention · first at 1:03
  A recurring in-studio participant used for banter; the transcript does not establish whether this is the famous musician/filmmaker or a show nickname for a staffer/guest.
  That was interesting. You looked up to the right. That's the lying side. We've got Rob Zombie with us in the studio.

Concepts & topics

• Alcoholics Anonymous — Concept · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at 28:30
  Mentioned as a framework for recovery, though the podcast is not officially affiliated with it.

Places & events

• Crack On — Event · Core topic · 5 mentions · first at 3:09
  A segment of the podcast focusing on recovery from addiction, featuring personal stories and support.
• Old Florida Fish House — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at 3:38
  Venue where Russell Brand will perform his show, mentioned as a place for live events.
  Can come on the 16th, 17th of February or March the 1st and second. Click the link in the description, purchase your tickets to see my show called A Funny Thing Happened to Me…

Sponsors

• Rumble — Company · Sponsor · 4 mentions · first at 0:21
  Platform where the podcast is hosted and promoted, offering additional content through Rumble Premium.
  Pace. The glory is upon us. Wherever you're watching us, remember if you go join us on Rumble, especially Rumble Premium, we benefit from that in ways that I can't even…
• True Gold Republic — Company · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at 20:55
  Promoted as a solution for financial independence through gold and silver investments.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:03 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brandussy theorist trying to bring real journalism to the American people. Hello there you awakening ones. Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. The revolution moves a pace. The glory is upon us. Wherever you're watching us, remember if you go join us on Rumble, especially Rumble Premium, we benefit from that in ways that I can't even describe. There are occultist reasons and interdimensional beings that will reward us for you signing up on Rumble. I'm joined today, as always, to talk about the news, although the news continually changes, by this brilliant team of fantastic men, many of whom, most of whom, I'd say, have accepted Christ in their life.

0:45 There's our producer, Jake Smith. Hi, Jake. Hey, good to be here. Yeah, it's beautiful to see you. There is local businessman, entrepreneur Dave Fields. Hey, Dave.

0:53 Hello. You've got your own podcast, of course. I do. I come on that sometimes, don't I?

0:57 You do. And I'm probably one of your favorite guests. The best. That was interesting. You looked up to the right. That's the lying side. We've got Rob Zombie with us in the studio.

1:06 Hey, how y'all doing? What's that in your mouth, Rob? New grill. New grill, new railings, new set of teeth. Makes [clears throat] a change from what used to be in your mouth. Either a crack pipe or a penis to pay for the crack pipe that would be following it. If Rob Zombie can change and I can change, maybe the whole world can change. Courtesy Rocky Balboa. Also, Joe Man is with us. He's there in the UK. All right. Average Joe.

1:30 How we doing, boys? Pretty good. We're going to get you to do more UK based items where we investigate news stories in the UK, like get you to infiltrate things, interview people, stuff like that, you know, like you did that brilliant reporting on the Tommy Robinson march. We want to do more of that kind of thing.

1:45 Yeah. There's another one coming up actually in May, I believe. Another protest. The same thing. Yeah. Yeah.

1:52 Really? I saw on Tommy Robinson's X. Two seconds. Let me pull it up. He announced it last week. I think May 16th is the date. Central London is the place. The world is watching and your voice will be heard. Make it, share it, be there. For one, four nations, one God.

2:09 A lot. That's Wow. Four. What did he say? Four races, one God. Four nations, one kingdom under God.

2:15 Four nations, one kingdom under God. I don't know about well mate that's he's going to eventually your love of Tommy Robinson will mess with your love of Ireland stuff like that four nations under God but hey um Massie how you doing you all right mate

2:30 not bad mate you good well I feel pretty positive yeah I feel okay I'm dressed in a blanket I always knew the day would come but I've managed to sort of um the blanket is somewhat articulated by the sort of by old Gunchester gun stops it being just a pure blanket there's gunchester at the hip It holds it all together.

2:49 It is Star Wars. Yeah. Very very Star Wars. Very Star Wars. SIR, I'M AFRAID I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO TAKE that back. NOW, SIR, I'VE TAKEN UMBRAGE with what you've just said. Look at that. The American faces. Don't worry. I do it all the time. We're okay. We're cool. It's all good. It's all good. Don't panic. Don't panic. It's all going to be okay. We've got a fantastic show lined up. Before we get into our fantastic new item, Crack On, where we talk about recovery, let us know in the comments and chat if you're struggling with addiction or attachment or loss, particular chemical dependency.

3:20 That's where me, Joe, and Dave have the most experience. You can join us and benefit. Remember, of course, we are just interested in recovery and carrying the message of recovery in the best way possible. And if you'd like to come and see me live, you can. We have just put tickets on sale to see me where I live here in the Florida panhandle at the magnificent Old Florida Fish House. You can come on the 16th, 17th of February or March the 1st and second. Click the link in the description, purchase your tickets to see my show called A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to Church. A funny thing happened on the way to church.

3:57 Funny thing happened to Way on the Way to Church. brilliant show about coming to the Lord and about well actually the powerful demonic forces that run our institutions. These are the sort of things people are becoming aware of. Um I've got a few stories to talk about before we get into recovery. I want to just tag that beloved Sheila Labou who I used to see around. Good lad. Good lad has found the Lord. He's become as Catholic as possible. Look at him there. He's right into it. And it's just lovely to see Shilabirth saved. What a beautiful story that is. You like that?

4:28 Do you Joe? Yeah, it's good stuff. He played Padre Podi in a film recently and that was when he converted, I believe.

4:35 Did you see the film? I watched half of it. What do you mean? You You're a Catholic. You love God. You watched a film about Padre Peio. You You're not even taking drugs and you got bored.

4:45 I know the story. Yeah, it's a good film. I'll probably watch the other half tonight after this.

4:50 Brilliant. All right. I bet you don't. I bet you get sidetracked. I bet you get sidetracked. Um, send a video of you watching it

4:56 or it didn't happen. I'll do a watch along. This is um from uh Senate Secretary Kennedy, excuse me. Don't just rinse your fruits. Soak them in uh baking soda for 12 to 15 minutes. It b breaks down and removes far more pesticide residues and waxes than plain water ever could. Protecting your family from hidden chemicals. Simple, cheap, and powerful. I reposted it with a simple message. Does it work on your testicles? And my hope is [snorts] that that will inspire an ongoing online conversation and hopefully more lives will be saved. How many people must die before the change?

5:34 Now look, I wanted to let you know list cuz you know me, I'm not a racist and I don't believe in racism or any phobias against anyone doing like since it's weird when you become Christian it's pretty clear what's in the old good book when it comes to things like well firstly become a follower of Jesus. It's pretty clear on that subject. Although the Old Testament, there's some people, there are some people to whom we regular Christians are Mormons, isn't it?

6:03 To the Jews, we're the Mormons. The Jews. To the Jews, we're the Mormons. And to the Mormons, we're the Jews.

6:12 Yeah, that's the That's your next book. That's my next book. Um, but like what I will say is I wonder if anyone has strong views about this. I saw the person Pearson that posted this online is about mayor of the new mayor of Brighton pretty near where you're from Joe has been sworn in and is Muslim. Now me personally, I don't uh dispute anyone's religious freedoms. If you're a follower of Islam, of course you should be a follower of Islam if that's your thing. Or if you're an atheist or any of the other madeup wrong religions um like like no I think they're all should be follow. But what sort of strikes me as interesting is in Britain which is of course a secular but nominally Christian country in particular I draw attention to the fact that the authority of the monarch is meant to be derived from divine authority. It's the it's God that apparently according to I feel they won't say constitutional law because

7:16 Britain has no constitution but to Britain's you know inner national mythos the reason we have a royal family is because the royal family has been appointed by God. So that's kind of and it's a Christian god in that instance. So it's by definition a monarchy and the monarchy is Christian. So it's somewhat a Christian country. So what do you think about this? Let's have a

7:36 gentlemen. Assalamu alaykum. Before I come I learn a little bit. Also, by the way, who's the geyser in a bowler at? And why is he standing there like that? What's that mad Bradford and Bingley odd job get up all about? It's uh extraordinary. Now, I actually think that mayor looks like a nice person. I think he's emanating a pretty warm vibe. And I think public service should and could be done by anyone who's got good solid values when it comes to community service kindness love non-corruption non-bias. But it's it's interesting the explicitness of the religiosity. I.e. He says assalamu alalaykum at the very top of it. I think he said another sort of Muslim thing during it. And again, I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm just saying is there equivalency to that? Would would someone say, "Well, of course there is, you [ __ ] When parliament begins, you know, or every time you're in a court case, you swear on the Bible,

8:42 which is odd because it's a secular country. And when I swear on a Bible at my trial, I bet I'm the only person in the room who believes in God." So don't you think it's interesting that something can be so explicitly religious in a country where it's stated religion has been um not suppressed but kind of submerged.

9:06 It is my great pleasure as mayor of Brighton and hope to warmly welcome Ambassador Bush to our wonderful city today. As you come from Rwanda, I come from Bangladesh. So we are equal now in the diverse city ambassador and mayor of Brighton from the diverse in this city. I'm the first South Asian counselor and first South Asian mayor.

9:38 We are fortunate to have I don't think there's anything of course wrong with having a South Asian mayor or representatives of a country's political system that were not born in that country. But I suppose what we're doing is we're really testing the boundaries of what a nation is. A nation is by definition a contained set of land laws represented by a flag. in some cases a constitution, usually by some shared ideology, a bunch of tax rules, some legislation generally beneficial to elites that operate beyond those very borders. So, I certainly don't uh encourage working people from around the world to get locked in deadly tension with one another on the basis of race or religion. That's the worst and most stupid thing we could possibly be doing.

10:22 But it does tell you something interesting about a country's sense of identity when our own religiosity, our own faith in God, our own faith in real meaning or purpose has been sublimated to such a degree uh and we are yet somehow celebrating external extraneous secondary different faiths. [snorts] Joe, you're from around there, mate. What do you reckon? Yeah. I mean, it's not a like big Muslim area for sure. So, it seems like a strange move. And like I don't know, man. I do think if you're going to be the mayor of a place, you should be from the country. Really?

11:01 Should you not? I mean, you understand the culture. You represent that place. You should be from that place. I think anyway,

11:09 I wonder if I could become like a mayor or like I'm in exile right now in the United States of America. I love this country. I love these people. But I wonder if I could get into office here. It's interesting, isn't it? It's interesting. There's a lot of talk in scripture about nations being under God, nations being secondary to God, and almost the indication that nations will be overwhelmed at some point by God. And that's partly what I think we might be experiencing now, that people may start to identify with something. In fact, we all do. You know, I identify probably with my own family, I would say, more than my Englishness. I'm more concerned about my dog than I'm concerned about, you know, bloody hell, to be honest, the potential of Britain being in war in a war with Russia because in truth, the nation is an abstract concept. Bolted on. Bolted on. So how like so you know I think they should be careful with

12:00 messing with the fragility of an abstract concept like nation which for a long while in a country like ours the UK was utilized to get generation after generation to fling their lives before the foreign fire of in general German machine guns and only now is that nationhood being revoked in favor of a word he said twice there diversity and it's likely that that word diversity is part of a mandate in the same way that you know safe and effective is crops up in news reports around vaccines. Um Dave, your what do you think of a British political system that um enshrines and celebrates the religiosity of uh in this case a Muslim mayor so overtly?

12:42 I think that's fine if it is natural. It seems like a forced agenda to come in and push and like forcing a change in culture. M

12:52 that's the part that like I mean it's got a bad feeling to it that hey we're coming in here with an agenda that it's not a natural thing built from the culture that this mayor's coming up it's oh no we're going to place him in there so that we can change the culture and it's a forced I don't know it feels like agenda behind it. What I liked when I lived here, I reckon you're right. When I lived in East London, I was around a lot of Muslim folk and visited the the [snorts] East London mosque a couple of times. I was really interested in Islam because Muslims were against the establishment power that I considered to be the most serious threat to individual freedom of all people, Muslim and non-Muslim. At that time, this was around the point of Iraq and Iraq 2 and Guantanamo Bay and people getting arrested and interned. And I thought, yeah, a Muslims, man, they got a case.

13:45 They got a point in this lot, you know, and I thought it was pretty cool. Like, and I learned a lot. And what was his name? I spoke to this guy that'd been a British guy that had been held in Guantanamo Bay, illegally arrested, and I learned a lot about the persecution of Muslims. And I think it's a real thing. But I also now believe Dave like you that part of the domestic disruption that's being caused in countries like Germany, the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent your country, the United States, it seems to be sort of different here is as a result of migration programs that are deliberately disruptive. And I became aware of it mostly when it started happening in Ireland because in the country of Ireland, you can't make the same claims that well Britain went around the world colonizing an imperial force disrupting all of these nations. If eventually that leads to those countries being uh so war

14:37 torn that there's a refugee crisis, Britain should pay the price. And I was like, I can see that argument. I can see that argument. And America, America's a global economy that exploits its relationships with secondary nations. And every nation is secondary to the United States. And that causes whether it's lithium mining across the world or whatever's going on with cobalt in the Congo or wherever. You know, America's power is causing disruption. I can see why America and America is a nation built on migration. But when it was Ireland, I thought, hang on a minute, those guys didn't do that. They were colonized by the British oppressed. They had to fight for their national identity. And they were saying the same stuff. They being the globalist media about Ireland. you're racist, da da da da da. And I thought, no, you can't play. It's a lie. It's definitely a lie.

15:21 And then I saw a brilliant article by, now don't be childish, uh, the Chinese artist Iw wee wee. Iw wee wee was a is like sort of a Chinese artist who'd lived in Germany for a time as a refugee did Iw wee wee and Iwee wew wei like when he left China as a refugee. I said don't be childish. I wei left China and uh he said like um you know because he was a refugee and an artist for freedom of speech issues and he's just gone back to China cuz his mom was dying. He's being in seeking refuge refugee status in Germany, Berlin and he's like Germany's worse now than China. Like China's social controls are more relaxed and it's a less messed up country than Germany. Uh I remember I we we don't be childish because like I we contributed when I done the New Statesman was my first gambit into the political in the UK when I said there's no point voting.

16:14 I I uh I was the guest editor of a magazine called the New Statesman because my girlfriend at the time Jamaima Khan was sort of affiliated with it and she got me to do it and um anyway I got good people involved. Shepherd Ferry done the cover. David Lynch did a bit. Alec Baldwin did a bit. Lots of people did stuff for it and that's when I said there's no point voting. The magazine itself, the Snides done did an article the very next week saying why Russell Brown's wrong. Like they got another actor, this sort of actor out peep show, Robert Web, a show that we all all the English people in the show love actually and it's so funny and brilliant. Um they got him to say Russell Brown's crazy and he's an idiot and read some [ __ ] Orwell. And I've actually read quite a lot of Orwell, all George Orwell actually. And it turns out George Orwell was against totalitarianism and did not feel super

17:03 encouraged by the tendencies of social democracy and how they slide towards totalitarianism. I now know but I we don't be childish. He was one of the people that contributed and it was just really interesting. I was thinking about how much my life has changed since I started to publicly talk about politics. First then with saying not vote then when I started talking about running for mayor of London in around 2014 2015. Then when during COVID I made all this YouTube content where I criticized Madna, FISA, then going on from that attacking state interests. It's just interesting how much my life has changed and I'm grateful for all of it because I've found the Lord and I recognize now that you can't attack state power really from anywhere other than truth. If you don't have access to a profound truth, you're just going to be locked in a cultural conflict forever. If it's just like I think that you know people should

17:55 be able to express themselves sexually however they want uh in the end you'll get into some sort of drama. If it's some sort of other tribal uh affiliation or identity you'll get in trouble. But if what you're saying is there is a god god has told us how to live. He's even given us instructions for how to handle people who don't believe in god at all or believe in other gods. And here's your instruction ma manual. Here's your telos. Any other way than this is going to lead to trouble. And I think that's the conversation we're in now. And when I get by God's grace get acquitted um in the eventual trial, this will again be my focus. This will again be my focus.

18:30 And by then our movement will have grown. Our online independent media movement will have grown. People will know that independent media means immediate mass communication. And the technology that so changed everything from the way your food is delivered or the way you watch movies will ultimately be implemented in politics, granting direct democracy and decentralized systems of governance. and mayers will mean something and local councils will mean something and city states and bar councils will again mean something and centralized authority will be attacked.

18:59 They're of course well ahead of that. They know that's what's coming down the pipe. That's why they want to control this technology. That's why like with cryptocurrencies they first of all say this cryptocurrency is evil. No one should have touched it. Then they go [ __ ] while while they're dealing with that set up our own cryptocurrencies and get with it quick because this shit's going to take us down. And that's what they did with the internet. They'll go, "Right, what does everyone What's everyone against? Pedophiles. Say everyone's a pedophile, right? The internet, it's all pedophiles. It's all pedophiles." Meanwhile, they're all [ __ ] on Epstein Island noshing off kids and stuff in that weird blue and white temple, right? Well, they're buying time. Everyone's going, "Well, is that person a pedophile? Who's the pedophiles? Are you sure you're just introducing all this regulation and

19:40 centralized control to protect us from pedophiles?" I, for example, am an adult and therefore a pretty safe from pedophiles just by definition. Yeah, the average pedophile. There's a brilliant Brassey once, [clears throat] brilliant Brassey, and he goes, "Uh, uh, I'm a pedophile. Is it okay for me to to have sex with this 12y old girl if I wait till she's 35 and they do it to like a a focus group and people going, "You disgust me."

20:10 Dear sir, I am a pedophile. Please, can I have sex with this three-year-old girl now that she's 21?

20:15 No. Why? You should be in a mental asylum. Unable to hear if I wait till she's 35. They're unable to think straight. It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. Anyway, so my point is this. The world is changing. The world is changing fast. And we're very grateful that you are a part of it. We can't make this content without the support of our partners. Here's a message from one. Now, you know, and I know that we are living in volatile times of incessant crisis. And in such times, you need something solid, not ethereal. You need silver and gold. Fiat currency is collapsing the world over. The dollar has never been less used. True gold republic could be your solution. Here's what separates speculation from pattern recognition.

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22:50 amidst the treasures available there is like George Michael just singing watching it like George Michael watching and joining in and David Bow's got a [ __ ] on like smoking a snout while rehearsing it and Lennox is like effortless brilliance and it's like well this is a rehearsal. You don't see art of this quality really anywhere ever. And this is them just rehearsing. Check this out. turned away from it all like a blind man. Sat on the fence, but it don't hurt. Keep coming up [singing] forever. Jesus.

23:47 One more chance. Why can't we give love? I got to give up. Give up. Give up. [singing] Give up. Give up. Give up. [singing] Heat. Heat. Heat. [singing] Yeah. Heat. This is awesome. Under pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure.

25:05 don't even really get a round of applause out of the room. Them were the days. That's proper talent right there. Um, remember, we can't make this content without the support of our partners. Here's a quick message from one now before we go to our new recovery podcast, Crack On with Joe, Russell, and Dave. Don't go away. Do you want TO SUPPORT ME? NO, I DON'T. YES, YOU DO. SUPPORT me and support Rumble Premium. You won't only be supporting me, you'll get additional access to Mug Club, that's Crowder's gig, Tim Cast, that's Tim Paul's racket, and Glenn Greenwald's additional content. Join us on Rumble Premium. We make content every single week through Rumble because Rumble support free speech. When I was under attack from the British government and the British media, Rumble stood firm. Yes, of course there's crazy people on Rumble. There's crazy people everywhere. There's a crazy person living under this hat. That

25:59 doesn't mean we shouldn't have the right to speak freely together. By supporting Rumble Premium, you're supporting me and content creators like me. You get additional content. And what I will say even more, drink down deep on the delicious irony in this one. You get an adree experience. If you want an adree experience of Rumble, get Rumble Premium. In the meantime, stay free. Hello and welcome back. I guess we should do the disclaimer. If you're watching us anywhere other than Rumble, click the link in the description. Join us over on Rumble for our recovery podcast. Crack on with Joe, Russell, and Dave. And now, an important message.

26:37 This podcast is not allied with nor endorsed by any particular 12step fellowship. Although we may reference their literature, we do not represent these organizations. The primary purpose of this podcast is to provide additional support to men and women who walk the path of recovery. We share our personal experiences of the 12 steps in the hope that they can benefit others. Take what is useful. Disregard what isn't. Apologies in advance for any offenses caused. Any other problems, take it to your god and your sponsor.

27:08 Hello and welcome to Crack on with Joe, Dave, and Russell. I'm going to put myself last because you know the humility, the incredible humility. Dave, how long you been uh clean and sober now, mate?

27:19 Just got 25 years. Well done. Congratulations. It's wild. Yeah. What drugs did you most like taking? [snorts]

27:26 Heroin and alcohol. Yeah, they're good ones. Joe, what about you? Uh, mate, how long you been clean and sober?

27:32 5 years now, mate. What drugs did you like best? I like cocaine best and alcohol.

27:40 Really, really liked alcohol. Yeah, you like that alcohol, huh? It's nice. Um, what about u me? I'm 23 years, one day at a time and I liked crack and heroin. I realized the other day that it's heroin that I really like because of oblivion when I was thinking about Joseph Campbell saying that in the waking state you're interacting with reality. In the dream state you're digesting with reality. In the blissful sleep state you're in oblivion. And I think some people really like a heightened state you know like really want to be experiencing. I think if you're really into say for example sex maybe or I don't know partying or something like that I get the idea that heightened state's very good but I've been trying to spot in the 23 years since I've been clean and sober what it is that I'm looking for and what it is that I want and even though this podcast is of course not affiliated with any

28:30 12step program in particular the famous alcoholics anonymous third step is about the idea of surrendering hand over your life and your will to the care of God as you understood God, here's this is how it's written in mostly made a decision to turn our will our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. Now, I've had people say to me before, "What does that mean? Turn your life and your will over to the care of God. You might as well put it in the microwave. What does that mean? Turn your life and your will over the care of God." As you understand, what does it mean to you?

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Who speaks in "Crack On: What Comes After Addiction, Chaos, and Collapse — SF671"?

Russell Brand (Host), Jake Smith (Guest), Dave Fields (Guest), Rob Zombie (Guest), Joe Man (Guest).

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The discussion focuses on the themes of recovery and transformation following addiction, chaos, and personal collapse, emphasizing the potential for change and growth. Russell Brand and his diverse team engage in conversations about current news, personal experiences, and spiritual insights, suggesting that if individuals like Rob Zombie can overcome their past challenges, then societal change…

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15 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Russell Brand, Crack On, Dave Fields, Joe Man, Alcoholics Anonymous, Tommy Robinson. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

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The episode runs 32 min; the transcript is about 5,171 words in 57 timestamped sections.

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